New KATU poll: Charlie Hales' lead over Jefferson Smith inches up in Portland mayoral race

The OregonianCharlie Hales and Jefferson Smith will face each other in the November general election.

A new poll has Charlie Hales seven points ahead of Jefferson Smith in the race for Portland mayor, up slightly from his position in September.

The poll, conducted for KATU news by SurveyUSA, contacted voters Sunday through Tuesday.

Those dates only partially overlap with reports published late Monday of the victim's account from a 1993 college party where Smith struck her in the face with his fist. News of the incident first broke Oct. 1, but the police report -- which included information from the victim -- provided more unflattering details of Smith and called into question how forthcoming the mayoral candidate has been.

Of 513 likely Portland voters, 37 percent said they'd vote for Hales, 30 percent for Smith and 33 percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4.4 percent.